Abbey Entrance At Saint Antione L`Abbaye, France Stock Photography

Saint-Antoine-l`Abbaye is a commune in the Isère department in southeastern France. Formerly known as La-Motte-Saint-Didier, it was renamed after becoming the home of purported relics of Saint Anthony the Great in the 11th century, and shortly afterwards of the original house of the Hospital Brothers of St. Anthony, founded here in 1095 as the result of miraculous cures from St. Anthony`s Fire ascribed to the relics.It was set up as a Benedictine community,